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Liferay Recognizes Componence as First Platinum Partner in the Netherlands

Open source portal platform gains popularity in Dutch markets

AMSTERDAM — (May 8, 2012) — Liferay, Inc., provider of the world’s leading enterprise-class, open source portal, announced today that Componence has become a Liferay Platinum Partner by leveraging the power of the open source platform for private- and public-sector clients across a diverse range of industries.

”We are extremely pleased to recognize Componence as the first Liferay Platinum Partner in the Netherlands,” said Ruud Kluivers, Liferay’s Business Development Manager, Benelux. “Componence has been a valuable partner and has grown with Liferay since they became a Gold Business Partner less than 18 months ago. In the past year, they have continually provided a high level of expertise in Liferay’s products, implementing our competitive portal platform to fulfill the business goals of their customers.”

“The majority of our clients are looking for the flexibility and efficiency of a robust open source portal solution and Liferay is the leading choice. We are pleased to become the first Dutch Platinum Partner in such a short time frame,” said Chris Göbel, Sales Director of Componence. "The platform delivers strong integration capabilities for enterprise portals, social media mashups, CRM and mobile enterprise solutions. Since Liferay is also a very affordable solution we have been able to grow our client base, which includes customers like Kluwer, De Zaak, Dunea, Parnassia Bavo Groep, Radboud Universiteit, and KLM.

Liferay, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise open source portal and collaboration software products, servicing Fortune 500 companies worldwide. Clients include Allianz, BASF, Cisco Systems, Lufthansa Flight Training, Rolex SA, Siemens AG, The French Ministry of Defense, and the United Nations. Liferay offers Enterprise Edition subscriptions, which provide access to emergency fixes, software updates, 24/7 support SLAs, and subscription-only features. Liferay also offers professional services and training to ensure successful deployments for its customers. Liferay, Liferay Portal, and the Liferay logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Liferay, Inc., in the United States and other countries.

Enterprise portal provider opens new office in the UK, names New Director of Operations in Europe with strategic hires in France, Benelux

FRANKFURT, Germany and LONDON, UK — (May 2, 2012) — Liferay, Inc., provider of the world’s leading enterprise-class open source portal, announced today a more than doubling in European sales with a significant rise in the demand for Liferay’s technologies in the region. In support of the growth in business, the company has opened a new office in the UK while recently naming a new Director of Operations in Europe and making strategic hires to support key European markets.

“We are excited to see Liferay gaining significant traction in the European markets,” said Bryan Cheung, Liferay’s CEO. “The number and quality of our customers show Liferay is providing significant value. With our recently expanded team of talented business managers and a new corporate presence in the UK, Liferay’s European offices are well-positioned to meet this burgeoning demand.”

Liferay’s expansion in Europe follows its execution of a strong channel strategy, which resulted in a 150 percent growth in European sales in 2011 over the previous year and the addition of over 50 partners over a two-year period. The portal provider has made significant inroads throughout the region, including in the UK, where there has been a surge in demand for Liferay products, particularly in the public sector as the adoption of open-source technologies grows. The new office in London joins existing offices in Frankfurt, Madrid, and Budapest to become Liferay’s fourth to open in Europe over the last six years.

Joseph Shum, formerly General Manager of Liferay’s European headquarters in Germany, has taken a new role as Director of Operations in Europe. In his new position, Shum will work to further strengthen coordinated sales and operations execution among the company’s European offices to better serve the region. Also joining the team is Ruud Kluivers as Senior Manager, Business Development, to support customers in the Benelux, where Liferay has seen success with the many European Union organizations headquartered in that region. In France, Marc Brassier joins Liferay as Alliance Manager to support Liferay’s strong roster of French partners and customers, which include Société Générale and Barclay’s.

Liferay’s premier event in Europe this year will be the Europe Symposium 2012, which will take place in Wiesbaden, Germany, from October 16 to 17. To meet the team in person this month, join Liferay at one of the following events:

Liferay, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise open source portal and collaboration software products, counting as clients Fortune 500 companies worldwide, including Allianz, BASF, Cisco Systems, Lufthansa Flight Training, Rolex SA, Siemens AG, The French Ministry of Defense, and the United Nations. Liferay offers Enterprise Edition subscriptions, which provide access to emergency fixes, software updates, 24/7 support SLAs, and subscription-only features. Liferay also offers professional services and training to ensure successful deployments for its customers. Liferay, Liferay Portal, and the Liferay logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Liferay, Inc., in the United States and other countries.

Partner award recognizes high-quality business development services fulfilling the healthy appetite for enterprise solutions in Europe

LOS ANGELES, Calif. and MADRID, Spain — (April 24, 2011) — Liferay, Inc., provider of the world’s leading enterprise-class open source portal, announced today that everis, a multinational consulting firm in business and technology solutions, has become a Liferay Platinum Partner.

Everis is Liferay’s second Platinum Partner based in Spain and reflects the portal provider’s strong presence in the region. The partner award is indicative of the vibrant market for Liferay’s enterprise portal solutions among top private companies and public organizations in the Iberian Peninsula. Everis is part of a well-established Liferay partner network comprising 16 partners in Spain and one partner in Portugal.

“We congratulate everis today on its new status as a Liferay Platinum Partner,” said Bryan Cheung, Liferay’s CEO. “During the two years of our partnership, we have seen first-hand the high level of support and dedication provided by this company for its enterprise customers. We look forward to continuing to partner with everis in bringing business impacting technologies to the Spanish market.”

“We are extremely proud to have reached the Platinum level in our partnership with Liferay,” said Alberto Otero, Portals Line of Service Director at everis. “We value our capabilities to deliver the best solutions to our customers in conjunction with Liferay in the areas of quality, reliability and innovation. We believe becoming a Liferay Platinum Partner reflects the good relationship that exists between us and Liferay as well as the fact that customers recognize the partnership as a winning combination for them.”

Everis is one of the top consulting firms in the Spanish region with 9,000 professionals in international markets throughout Europe, the U.S. and Latin America. The company provides solutions in a broad spectrum of industries including telecommunications, finance, banking, manufacturing, insurance, public administrations, energy, media and health care. Everis has delivered high-quality solutions for Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition (EE) projects over the years through its involvement in several Liferay initiatives.

everisis a multi-national consulting company offering business development and strategy, technological applications maintenance, and outsourcing solutions. The consulting firm works in the banking, energy and utilities, financial, industrial, insurance, media, public administration, sanitation and telecommunications sectors. Currently, everis has operations in several European and Latin American countries and a professional staff of more than 9,000.

About Liferay

Liferay, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise open source portal and collaboration software products, counting as clients Fortune 500 companies worldwide, including Allianz, Barclay’s, BASF, Cisco Systems, Lufthansa Flight Training, Société Générale, The French Ministry of Defense, and the United Nations. Liferay offers Enterprise Edition subscriptions, which provide access to emergency fixes, software updates, 24/7 support SLAs, and subscription-only features. Liferay also offers professional services and training to ensure successful deployments for its customers. Liferay, Liferay Portal, and the Liferay logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Liferay, Inc., in the United States and other countries.

Enterprise services provider responds to demand for Liferay’s portal technologies across an array of industries

LOS ANGELES, CA – (April 10, 2012) -- Liferay, Inc., provider of the world’s leading enterprise-class, open source portal, announced today that Youngsoft, Inc. has become a Liferay Platinum Partner by leveraging the power of the open source portal to a variety of clients across a diversified range of industries, in both the private and public sectors.

”We are proud to recognize Youngsoft as a Liferay Platinum Partner,” said Bryan Cheung, Liferay’s CEO. “Youngsoft has been a valuable partner for over four years during which they have continually provided a high level of expertise in Liferay’s products. Their high-caliber enterprise portal solutions span multiple industries, providing strong technical value while fulfilling the business goals of their customers."

Youngsoft provides expert Liferay support and consultations and other IT services to customers in healthcare, manufacturing, education and state government. This includes a variety of healthcare providers, payers and caregivers. Within manufacturing, Youngsoft has built Liferay Portal solutions for automotive and discreet manufacturing companies. Additionally, Youngsoft’s expertise has been leveraged within multiple educational institutions and state governments for developing superior portal solutions using Liferay.

“The majority of our clients are looking for the flexibility and efficiency of a robust open source portal solution, and Liferay Portal has been a leading choice,” said Youngsoft President and CEO Rupesh Srivastava. “Many of our customers are looking for implementation expertise from a partner who can lead the project as well as work seamlessly with their existing teams. With over four years experience in Liferay technologies across multiple industry verticals, our Youngsoft Liferay Practice is dedicated to providing the highest quality, Liferay-trained experts who can meet very high-demand customer requirements. As we enjoy a close relationship with the Liferay leadership and a strong dedication to sharing our knowledge throughout the Liferay community, we are pleased to be one of only six North America-based companies to be so honored with the Platinum designation."

For more information about Liferay, visit www.liferay.com. Additional information about Youngsoft, Inc. can be found at www.youngsoft.com and on the Liferay website partner page.

About Youngsoft, Inc.:

Youngsoft, Inc., incorporated in 1996, offers local, onshore/offshore or offshore solution design and development services utilizing its CMMI certified software development center at its global headquarters in Wixom, Michigan. We are an established provider of Liferay portal and other IT services including solution design/development, professional services staffing support, consulting, as well as proprietary product sales and service. Through extensive experience supporting the IT needs of Fortune 100 companies as well as small business enterprises throughout North America, the organization provides fully-customized products and services. Youngsoft is passionate about its Clients, and is firmly focused on providing customer satisfaction through exceptional services and products in a timely, quality, cost effective, and professional manner.

About Liferay, Inc.:

Liferay, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise open source portal and collaboration software products, counting as clients Fortune 500 companies worldwide, including Allianz, Barclay’s, BASF, Cisco Systems, Lufthansa Flight Training, Société Générale, The French Ministry of Defense, and the United Nations. Liferay offers Enterprise Edition subscriptions, which provide access to emergency fixes, software updates, 24/7 support SLAs, and subscription-only features. Liferay also offers professional services and training to ensure successful deployments for its customers. Liferay, Liferay Portal, and the Liferay logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Liferay, Inc., in the United States and other countries.

LOS ANGELES, CA—(April 3, 2012)—Liferay, Inc., provider of the world’s leading enterprise-class, open source portal, today announced that it was granted leadership for all open source projects on portletfaces.org, a community that showcases JavaServer Faces (JSF) as the premier user interface framework for developing portlets. The community was founded by Liferay Partners Triton Services and Mimacom AG, who are both recognized as experts in Liferay and JSF technology.

JSF establishes the standard for building server-side user interfaces on the Java EE platform and is widely leveraged among enterprise Java developers. Triton and Mimacom formed portletfaces.org in response to an increasing demand for JSF portlets. As provider of the premier open source portal for the enterprise, Liferay shares a large overlapping community with portletfaces.org, as evidenced by the high concentration of Liferay-related sub-projects such as PortletFaces Bridge, AlloyFaces, and LiferayFaces.

"The popularity of Liferay technology in the portletfaces.org community and Liferay’s history of leading successful open source projects made this decision an easy one—it is a win-win for the Liferay and JSF developer communities," said Atul Patel, Director of Agile Solutions of Triton Services, Inc. "Liferay has a long tradition of embracing JCP standards like the Portlet API, and we are confident that their commitment to JSF will yield the best results for the JSF community.”

"The work we have done at portletfaces.org has paid great dividends," added Micha Kiener, Head of Research & Innovation at Mimacom AG. "By making this contribution, our Liferay customers will now also enjoy the benefits of enterprise support for JSF as part of their Liferay subscriptions. Mimacom is looking forward to continued participation and improvements for JSF and Liferay integration."

The Liferay Portal platform was created in 2000 and open sourced in 2001. Since forming Liferay, Inc., the creators and the company’s leadership have continued to be dedicated to open source development and standards, resulting in the expansion of its community to over 60K worldwide, while encouraging adoption of open source in the enterprise with high-quality support and services.

"We have seen strong demand for JSF portlet development from Liferay’s community and customers," said Neil Griffin, JSF Team Lead at Liferay and lead developer at portletfaces.org. "This contribution by Triton and Mimacom provides Liferay with the opportunity to support JSF under Liferay, Inc.’s Enterprise Subscription and Support (ESS) offering.”

The transition of projects to Liferay is already underway, and is scheduled for completion this month. The projects will be repackaged under a new umbrella project called "Liferay Faces.” Find more information about Liferay Faces at www.liferay.com/community/liferay-projects/liferay-faces.

To learn more about Liferay visit www.liferay.com. Information about Triton can be found at www.tritonsvc.com. Information about Mimacom can be found on www.mimacom.com. Both Triton and Mimacom will continue to offer JSF based consulting and services to Liferay customers.

About Liferay:

Liferay, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise open source portal and collaboration software products, counting as clients Fortune 500 companies worldwide, including Allianz, Barclay’s, BASF, Cisco Systems, Lufthansa Flight Training, Société Générale, The French Ministry of Defense, and the United Nations. Liferay offers Enterprise Edition subscriptions, which provide access to emergency fixes, software updates, 24/7 support SLAs, and subscription-only features. Liferay also offers professional services and training to ensure successful deployments for its customers. Liferay, Liferay Portal, and the Liferay logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Liferay, Inc., in the United States and other countries

About Triton:

Triton Services, Inc. is a GSA Schedule contract vendor offering the Liferay Enterprise Edition and Liferay Training. The company is headquartered in Annapolis MD, and provides Liferay consulting and architectural services to commercial and government clients. Triton has been a leader in supporting and enabling JSF technology for use within Liferay and specializes in JSF portlet development for its customers.

About Mimacom:

MIMACOM is a leading provider in Europe for Enterprise Open Source solutions based on Java and is the initiator and main sponsor of the Open Source Framework edoras, a full fledged application stack on mainstream technologies including Spring, JPA (Hibernate), Liferay, JSF, and supporting efficient modules on top of Spring like Workflow, Scopes, and Templating.

Scott McNealy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, provided the keynote address at the Palmetto Open Source Software Conference (POSSCON) 2012, which concluded today in Columbia, S.C. In his speech, McNeally mentioned Liferay, Inc., noting in particular the strong growth of Liferay within enterprises and how the open source portal provider sees its success tied to an actively engaged community. McNealy, who is the Excecutive Chairman for Wayin.com, a new social polling site, also described Liferay's use of Wayin.com to interface with its 65,000 community members. POSSCON 2012 brought together a panel of noted experts in open source to discuss the latest issues involving open source for leaders in multiple industries. The annual conference is tailored to business and technical professionals working on solutions within open source and issues surrounding the open source ecosystem.

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